The event takes place Jan. 22 at Fort Hood in Texas and serves as a fundraiser for the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund.

MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) previously reported the two bouts. Hominick vs. Roop is part of the night’s Spike TV-televised main card.

Hominick looks for his fifth straight win (and fourth consecutive under the Zuffa LLC banner). Back in 2006, Hominick went 2-0 in a pair of UFC fights with Yves Edwards and Jorge Gurgel and then mixed in fights with the WEC and the Canadian TKO promotion. Hominick lost his first two WEC fights (to Rani Yahya and Josh Grispi), but following a submission win over Savant Young at “Affliction: Banned,” he returned to the WEC for good. Since then, he’s earned wins over Bryan Caraway, Yves Jabouin and Leonard Garcia to emerge as a top contender in the 145-pound division.

Roop, a fellow Shawn Tompkins-trained fighter, returns to the UFC for the first time since 2009. “The Ultimate Fighter 8″ cast member suffered losses to Shane Nelson and George Sotiropoulos and defeated Dave Kaplan before his release. But since a drop in weight and a move to the WEC, he’s 1-1-1 with a loss to Eddie Wineland, a split draw with Garcia and a recent upset of “The Korean Zombie,” Chan Sung Jung.

Meanwhile, Brenneman, who’s part of the AMA Fight Club in Whippany, N.J., signed with the UFC earlier this year and scored a decision win over Jason High in his promotional debut at UFC Fight Night 21. The victory extended his win streak to six fights, most of which came on the East Coast fight circuit. But he then suffered a TKO loss to Johny Hendricks at UFC 117 in August.

He now meets Alves, a Nova Uniao fighter who looks to rebound from a submission loss to Mike Pierce during a promotional debut at UFC 118. Prior to his first UFC fight, the Brazilian jiu-jitsu and judo black belt posted an 11-1 record (with six stoppage wins) in his native Brazil.

This is the second “Troops” event the UFC has hosted. The first, UFC Fight Night 16, took place in late 2008 in North Carolina and raised more than $4 million for the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, which provides assistance to our nation’s military heroes who have been critically injured in the performance of their duty.
For more information or to donate, go to www.fightforthetroops.com.

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